Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
Then, last year, Alice Vonk, now 67, a widowed mother of eight from Sully, Iowa, sent in some seeds to Burpee's farm in California. The first crop of marigolds was not quite white, but its seeds were planted this year, yielding at last the winner. Mrs. Vonk, who picked up her check last week at Burpee's home in Doylestown, Pa., did it all without any highfalutin horticultural techniques. Every summer for the past 20 years, she simply picked out the flowers that came closest to the ideal and saved their seeds for replanting...
...President's approval rating had dropped to 45% in the Gallup poll and to 38% in the Harris, so he was intent on explaining his policies wherever he went: touring an oil-shale plant with a hard-hat on his head or mingling with crowds at the Iowa State Fair with a button saying HOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL in his lapel...
...George Meany spearheaded that opposition last week by announcing that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load the grain on ships until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation's quest for peace. Our sale of grain and other foodstuffs to the rest of the world is one of the brightest areas in our economy, a green harvest...
...three days that the cosmic-ray detector hung 130,000 ft. over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen sheets of plastic, nuclear emulsion and photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long...